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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Bonds: Which?
Oscar Edward Cesare (1885-1948) · The New York Evening Post, 1917
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph of an Oscar Edward Cesare cartoon first published in The New York Evening Post on 18 May 1917, 55 by 35 cm, sold as a poster at ten cents a copy.
Why it matters
The First Liberty Loan was being sold that spring, and the cartoon reduced the choice to two kinds of bonds. Cesare was a Swedish-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist.
What to notice
Uncle Sam proffers Liberty Bonds, or shackles inscribed Prussia: both senses of the word bonds in one cartoon. The sheet offers extra copies at ten cents each.
One word, two kinds of bond.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Oscar Edward Cesare (1885-1948)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- The New York Evening Post, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002708921 · POS - US .C48, no. 1 (B size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired).
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